The Democratic-led Jan. 6 committee report concealed key information about Iranian election meddling efforts in 2020 and misled about the intelligence community debate over Chinese influence activities during the 2020 election.
The 2021 Intelligence Community Assessment concluded that Russia sought to help then-President Donald Trump’s reelection chances and harm now-President Joe Biden’s candidacy and that Iran sought to hurt Trump’s reelection efforts. The spy agencies had a split on China, with the majority view saying China did not deploy influence efforts in the 2020 election and the minority view assessing China did exactly that — to hurt Trump’s reelection chances.
The 2021 intelligence assessment released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded that the Russian government conducted influence operations aimed at “denigrating” Biden and “supporting” Trump. Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe released a Jan. 7, 2021, memo supporting the minority view on China — something for which the Capitol riot committee blasted him.
But Ratcliffe’s memo did reference supporting data, specifically referencing the view from the national intelligence officer for cyber and from other dissenting viewpoints inside the intelligence community. He also cited an analytic ombudsman report that looked at how intelligence analysts look at foreign interference and influence, including those related to China.
“I am adding my voice in support of the stated minority view — based on all available sources of intelligence, with definitions consistently applied, and reached independent of political considerations or undue pressure — that the People’s Republic of China sought to influence the 2020 U.S. federal elections,” Ratcliffe said in that early 2021 memo.
In the early January 2021 memo, Ratcliffe also referenced the 14-page report put together by Barry Zulauf, an analytic ombudsman and longtime intelligence official, who said there was a split in how the intelligence community handled Russia versus China.
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